voluntary servitude

Ned's more cultivated readers will no doubt be aware that, before World War One in Europe, and before the '60s here, a large class of persons were gainfully employed as domestic servants. Ned recalls his mother, hardly more than lower middle class (but satisfied with it), having several domestics who served us with dignity, and faithfully and well. To them we paid a modest wage, which included at least one meal and "carfare."
Today, voluntary servitude may be making a comeback, but in the form mainly of hired "maids" who come to clean the houses of busy professional persons, mainly women, like Ned's cherished daughter-in-law.
Alas, hiring such persons continues to be a bane to some of those of the sneering plutocrat class. Most recently, the California GOP Governor candidate, obscenely rich plutocrat Meg Whitman, has been caught hiring an illegal immigrant as a domestic servant for $23 an hour. Meg's story is (and she's sticking to it), when she found out that her Hispanic employee had forged documents, she fired her.
The domestic's story is, Ned's readers can appreciate, somewhat different. In fact, her "case" if that's what it is, has been taken up by a high-priced lawyer, Gloria Allred.
The whole situation is beginning to develop all the trappings of a made-for-cable reality TV drama. But we digress.
Ned's point in raising this matter is to wonder why these plutocrats insist on hiring persons of dubious legality, when there are millions of persons in this country willing and able to produce a valid birth certificate and more than happy to do domestic service (under somewhat less-than-onerous conditions, Ned surmises) for $23 an hour plus meals. So why do these persons hire overwhelmingly Hispanics, when most of the illegals seeking work in this country are, without prejudice--just stating facts--Hispanic. Is it they feel that these persons are likely to be illegal and so would be willing to do what they are told and, "What is the phrase? No questions will be asked" (h/t Peter Lorre).
Ned would like to take this opportunity to express to his plutocrat readers his willingness, for $23 an hour, to don a tuxedo and serve as door-opener or butler to any plutocrat in need of such assistance.
Ned can even commandeer a passable English accent if desired (at no extra charge).